The Sierra Nevada Field Campus of San Francisco State University is located on Hwy 49 between Sierra City and Sierraville, about 1 mi from Bassett's Station at the foot of the Sierra Buttes. Every year in early October we have a mushroom foray to the area. Class members stay in the Staff cabin or Director's cabin and we cook our meal in the Director's cabin. All day Saturday is spent in the field collecting fleshy hymenomycetes. In the late afternoon we return to camp where we lay the fungi out and I lecture on their identity and ecology. If any good edibles are found, they make their way onto the evenings menu, with appropriate vouchers retained of course. Below is a list of the species we typically find each year in early October. Comparing this list with the list of taxa from our Spring Fungi of the Sierra Nevada course (Biol. 315) you will notice that few species occur in the region both during the Spring and Fall. For the most part, there are two distinct mycotas represented in the Sierra Nevada....a Spring mycota from May through June, and a Fall mycota from late August through November.

Fungi From Sierra Nevada Field Campus Forays
Biology 800; Oct.8-10, 1993; Oct. 13-15, 1995

Albatrellus ellisii
Aleuria aurantia
Amanita gemmata
Amanita vaginata
Arcangeliella crassa
Armillariella mellea
Bisporella citrina
Boletus abieticola
Boletus calopus
Boletus haematinus
Boletus regius
Boletus rubripes
Boletus zelleri
Calbovista subsculpta
Calvatia sculpta
Choiromyces alveolatus
Chlorociboria aeruginascens
Chroogomphus rutilus
Chrysomphalina aurantiaca
Clitocybe atrobrunnea
Collybia maculata var. scorzonaria
Collybia verna
Conocybe sp. (2)
Coprinus atramentarius
Coprinus sp.
Cortinarius spp. (26)
Cryptoporus volvatus
Cystoderma fallax
Dermocybe croceus
Dermocybe sp. (2)
Endoptichum depressum
Flammulaster sp.
Fometopsis pinicola
Galerina sp. (3)
Ganoderma applanatum
Ganoderma tsugae
Gastroboletus subalpinus
Gastroboletus turbinatus
Gomphus bonari
Gyromitra infula
Hebeloma crustiliniforme
Helvella compressa
Helvella elastica
Helvella lacunosa
Hemimycena cucullata
Heterotextus alpinus
Hydnellum caerulescens
Hydnum repandum
Hygrocybe conica
Hygrophorus chrysodon
Hygrophorus hypothejus
Hygrophorus pudorinus var. fragrans
Hygrophorus purpurascens
Hypholoma capnoides
Hypholoma fasciculare
Inocybe spp. (7)
Kuehneromyces mutabilis
Laccaria pumila
Lactarius alnicola
Lactarius circellatus var. borealis
Lactarius deliciosus
Lactarius aff. luculentus
Lactarius rubrilacteus
Lactarius scrobiculatus
Laetiporus sulphureus
Leccinum insigne
Leucopaxillus gentianeus
Lycoperdon sp.
Lyophyllum decastes
Macowanites sp.
 		Melanoleuca graminicola
Melanoleuca melaleuca
Melanoleuca spp. (2)
Mycena adonis
Mycena galericulata
Mycena iodiolens
Mycena overholtsii
Mycena pura
Mycena purpureofusca
Mycena spp. (3)
Naucoria escharoides
Naucoria scolecina
Naucoria sp.
Nidula candida
Nolanea sp.
Panaeolus papillionaceus
Peziza sp.
Phaeogalera medullosa
Phaeogalera sp.
Phaeolus schweinitzii
Phellinus sp.
Phlogiotis helvelloides
Pholiota aurivella
Pholiota flammans
Pholiota malicola
Pholiota aff. spumosa
Pholiota spp. (2)
Pluteus cervinus
Pluteus petasatus
Polyporus badius
Pseudohydnum gelatinosum
Ramaria spp. (2)
Rhizopogon spp. (2)
Rhodocybe nitellina
Rickenella fibula
Rozites caperata
Russula albonigra
Russula brevipes var. acrior
Russula cremoricolor
Russula densifolia
Russula aff. murrillii
Russula mustelina
Russula terci
Russula spp. (3)
Scutellinia scutellata
Sedecula pulvinata
Strobilurus albipilatus
Strobilurus trullisatus
Stropharia ambigua
Stropharia riparia
Suillus albidipes
Suillus brevipes
Suillus granulatus
Suillus pseudobrevipes
Suillus riparius
Suillus sibiricus
Suillus tomentosus
Suillus umbonatus
Tricholoma atroviolaceum
Tricholoma focale
Tricholoma intermedium
Tricholoma pardinum
Tricholoma saponaceum
Tricholoma vaccinum
Tricholomopsis rutilans
Trichorina gilva
Tubaria sp.
Xeromphalina campanella
Xeromphalina cauticinalis
Xeromphalina fulvipes